Friday, March 14, 2014

Are You in There?

I'm over at From the Write Angle today talking about the Non-Autobiographical You. Sounds weird, I know, but if you pop on over, you'll see what I'm talking about!

I've never used a real event from my life in my writing and I doubt I ever will. So far I haven't even taken a real event and twisted it.

My life isn't great fodder for fiction. Thankfully! I don't want or need to live a life where I suffer like Main Characters always seem to do!

But if I had to take one event and use it, it might be my tendency to use swing sets a little differently as a kid. Sure I liked to swing and jump off like everyone else, but I also liked to shinny up the poles and hang upside down from my knees off the top bar. The most fun though was shinnying up to the top and then walking along the top bar as if it was a beam.

Might be a fun scene if I ever decide to write one of those MG ideas spinning around in my head!

How about you - what's something you've done that would make a great scene in a novel?

I have an idea for a scene in my head, but I'll only get to use it if my publisher fulfills the option for 2 more books in my MG series. If I get to write the 4th proposed book, my protagonist will be taken skiing for the first time by his teenage guardian. Then I'll be calling on my own experiences -- and my favorite ski mountain.

Some incidents in my books are based on things that have happened to me or people I know. But they're not lifted whole hog. It's the beginning of something, a reaction to something else, mixed with a healthy cup of fiction.